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Garden of Eden

June 26, 2023

Lilith in fragmented accounts originating from the Hebrew bible is said to have been made from the same clay as Adam in the Garden of Eden, and then banished for not obeying Adam. Other accounts say she copulated with archangel Samael and was then banished to hell and made the first, she-demon. It is said Eve was then created from Adams's rib to keep him company and obey. But she ended up choosing knowledge over Adam and was punished with the origin of sin.

Orca whales are believed by science to originate from a deer-like species and evolved into what they are today. Perhaps their evolution into the ocean could be a kind of banishment into the underworld. They have no predators, display behaviors of cruelty for the sake of fun, and are some of the most intelligent hunters on earth. Black and white, dark and light, do we share a connection with the ocean-dwelling killers? And if the sea is the “underworld”, could Lilith be a siren? Just as the story of Lilith is speculated to have been omitted from the bible, what if the story of the orca and other animals were as well? I am curious about what the bible would have looked like had it included the full spectrum of the garden. I would like to know the snake’s point of view as much as I would like to know Eve and Lilith’s.

Or maybe it did, and Adam is the only story that was remembered, and perhaps it was only remembered in a way that benefitted the Adams of the world at the time?

This painting depicts Lilith in the Garden of Eden post-copulation with Adam. He sits against the tree knowingly while the snake and crow come to warn her that Adam has given up his rib to create a new wife that is more him than her,( depicted as a ghostly chrysalis to the right). Lilith’s face begins to fade into a veil of darkness, right before she is about to eat a pomegranate that would give her the power of knowledge and sin, so she could know Adam’s. Circling below in the underworld are the orcas, waiting to take Lilith down to the sea, where she will spend eternity luring corrupt men to their death with her siren song. In the circular center portal is a vague look into the future, where soft blue mountains are interrupted by billboards with depictions of god’s light on them.

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